A thread of solidarity for those with Christmas guests

[Champagneforeveryone]

DM is arriving today, DH has just gone to collect her. Our relationship is normally OK, but due to some extremely dubious parenting on her part we've never been close.

Currently she's astounded and quietly appalled that the trains are busy and there's been a delay. She had also made vague noises about sending gifts down via courier but then left it too late, so tomorrow will require a trip to town <screams>

Added to the mix, DS is home from uni and his GF will be joining us from Boxing Day. DM is mildly racist and GF is not British. Dm also disapproves of wokeness and the general silliness of young people, so we're all in for a treat when she finds out GF is actually trans.

I intend to spend the next few days in a state of mild inebriation 🍷

This thread is comedy gold! Thank you 🙏 to so many of you for making me laugh so much ! 🤣

@Hoppinggreen

Took longer than I thought

What does this mean? Are you making a joke out of my DM passing away?

What a vile person

@picklemewalnuts mines the opposite, woukd have been gripping the dashboard and inching closer to the windscreen, telling me to be careful and mind the ditch/cliff edge/kerb and shouting about a car/truc/cyclist 5 miles away maybe pulling out.

Drive Me Batshit.

she then tells everyone I'm such a good driver & doesn't know how I do it!

...then just fucking relax, I've got this!

@CallieQ

Don't be so disengeneous
you know full well that's not what she was saying, at all.

my Dad died & my Mum lives in NZ & I don't currently have inlaws, but I can still empathise with other people.

I'm on my own this Xmas and this thread is just the tonic. Thanks all for sharing your family dramas, hope you all manage to get through it in one piece!😂

So I've had MIL telling my toddler off for giving her dog a bit of his dinner. Which would be fine, except said dog had spent the whole meal with his nose pretty much touching toddler's plate. One of us tried to get him to move and got a very sharp, "he's not doing anything!" from MIL.

My in laws have eaten nearly all my Christmas/Boxing day cheese - I had 8 different types and most of it is all gone. No wonder they weren't hungry at dinner I can't get mad cause I then sound like a lunatic, as we have loads of other food ......but I love cheese so much 😭

Morning!! We're up with the kids and waiting for in laws to get up so we can do gifts. This is the killer bit. They're sooooooo slow. 🤣

Get some cheese just for you, after Christmas. Or next year, start it early!

Food can be an issue here, too. She's eaten one of my advent calendar chocs- they were in a jar, so she wouldn't have known, but she didn't ask or wait til she was offered... I have to keep an eye out to make sure my DH and sons get a fair share of the goodies, as she's like a hoover. I don't really begrudge her that, really- I'm somewhat eating disordered too (wonder where I learned that)- but she doesn't seem to realise others miss out when she over does it.

Anyhoo, happy Christmas all! We can do it!

Do you write scripts for motherland?

Jesus Christ! All the cheese? What is the matter with these people? So so RUDE.

All the cheese 😧That's shocking. Would be unforgivable in this house. Couldn't care less if they feasted on chocolates etc just leave me some cheese.

That is actually depressingly bad. Mine would class as 'a bit racist' and would describe that as 'natural curiosity' failing to appreciate any of the implications of what she said. In fact, it would be a sign of what a deep thinker she is! 🙄

I'm the guest, but having the most joyless Christmas at my mum's. I've sorted the food for 5 days, DH has been cooking all the main meals, but I get criticised for taking over.
I've promised my 2 teenagers we'll have a 2nd Christmas when we get home.

Sorry, mine isn't funny!

Thanks Buggerlugs. I will make the best of it. At least there is wine and chocolate!

I quite accept that I am bound to irritate my DS in the future when I am the 'dotty' elderly relative. None of us are perfect and as DM to an only DC who is a DS I will probably be despised by any future partner however hard I try ... in fact trying too hard is equally as irritating.
We are staying with family BUT fortunately booked into a local hostel type place .. very reasonably priced rooms and DH, DS & I booked individual rooms so at least some peace and quiet. Haven't even seen them yet ... bliss
Back to the extended family later today ...

Oh ffs grow up 🙄

You know exactly what I meant

Oh dear, bad planning, Buggerlugs!

We've had a lovely day. It's been a bit odd at times- she's said some slightly inappropriate things. Mainly the controlling of everything, the contradicting and I already knew that stuff gets pretty wearing.

She keeps nicking the best bits of food too, which frustrates me!